John James FLYNT, Jr.

(1914-2007)

FLYNT, John James, Jr., a
Representative from Georgia; born in Griffin, Spalding County, Ga.,
November 8, 1914; attended the public schools and Georgia Military
Academy (now the Woodward Academy); A.B., University of Georgia,
Athens, Ga., 1936; United States Army, 1936-1937, 1941-1945; United
States Army Reserve; attended Emory University Law School in 1937
and 1938; graduated from George Washington University Law School,
Washington, D.C., 1940; lawyer, private practice; assistant United
States attorney for northern district of Georgia, 1939-1941,1945
and 1946; member of the Georgia state house of
representatives,1947-1948; solicitor general for Griffin Judicial
Circuit, 1949-1954; president, Georgia Bar Association, 1953-1954;
delegate, Georgia State Democratic conventions, 1946, 1950, 1954,
1958, 1962, and 1966; delegate, Democratic National Conventions,
1960 and 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress,
by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
United States Representative A. Sidney Camp and at the same time
was elected to the Eighty-fourth Congress; reelected to the eleven
succeeding Congresses (November 2, 1954-January 3, 1979); chair,
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ninety-fourth and
Ninety-fifth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection to the
Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978; resumed the practice of law and
farming operations; engaged in banking and real estate; died on
June 24, 2007, in Griffin, Ga.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present